The Business of Data Newsletter – Issue 10

Which Countries Are Leading the Data Economy? – Harvard Business Review. 24 January 2019“Which countries are the top data producers? After all, with data-fueled applications of artificial intelligence projected, by McKinsey, to generate $13 trillion in new global economic activity by 2030, this could determine the next world order, much like the role that oil production has played in creating economic power players in the preceding century.”https://hbr.org/2019/01/which-countries-are-leading-the-data-economy

HOW TIM COOK’S DATA BROKER REGISTRY MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK – Wired. 23 January 2019“You might have bought a product from an online retailer—something most of us have done. But what the retailer doesn’t tell you is that it then turned around and sold or transferred information about your purchase to a ‘data broker,’” Cook wrote. “We think every user should have the chance to say, ‘Wait a minute. That’s my information that you’re selling, and I didn’t consent.’”https://www.wired.com/story/tim-cook-data-broker-registry/

Does data equal business intelligence? – The Drum, 16 January 2019“Measurement is one of the biggest challenges facing advertisers today. With a plethora of customer data available and tools to help measure every aspect of it every minute of the day, the question remains: what deserves to be counted, and what doesn’t?”https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/01/16/does-data-equal-business-intelligence

China’s greatest natural resource may be its data – CBS News, 13 January 2019“Lee’s firm, Sinovation Ventures, has funded 140 AI startups, including shared-bicycle companies, education companies, and a firm that’s developing dishwashing robots. Lee says that the future for AI companies in China offers more promise than anywhere else, because of the simple fact that in a country of 1.4 billion, there’s just more data than anywhere else. In China, data has become its own kind of abundant natural resource.”https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-ai-chinas-greatest-natural-resource-may-be-its-data/

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